Henry Rollins Quotes

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

We must not be willing to disinter the origins of those [institutions] we wish to preserve.

You re being handed a national treasure. Your main responsibility is that whenever you may leave it, it still remains a national treasure.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

I'm attracted to the past.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.

That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

I spend a lot of time in the future, But to help the future, sometimes you got to go back to the past, and sometimes you got to stay in the present.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

You can't erase history.

I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of course, the food.